housing

Construction work and the right to housing collide frequently. A particular concern are building projects, which destroy the already appalling “living” conditions of homeless people who try to get by in make-shift “homes”. Often migrants from rural areas, they get by in little “huts”. One such example was featured in the IHT, which reported on a Chinese blogger, Zhang Shihe, who covers the plight of the homeless South of Tiananmen Square.